Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town of Belmonte, perched atop a rocky hilltop in northern Portugal, is dominated by a giant stone cross, a ruined castle and the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family. On each Holy Thursday, Father Jose Marins Registo brings from the church an image of Jesus bearing the cross to Calvary. Followed by children dressed as angels, he parades through the streets to the main square, where he meets a second procession displaying an image of the Virgin Mary. On Good Friday there is another procession and a symbolic burial, after which the priest carries a cross from house...
Desai's accession to power was uneventful and low-keyed. On Thursday, he drove to the old Viceroy's residence-now known as Rashtrapati Bhavan -where he was sworn in by Acting President Jatti. The oaths of office and official secrecy were read in Hindi, and in keeping with Desai's wish for austerity, there were no garlands. The new Prime Minister told reporters that he wanted to avoid being "vindictive or vengeful" toward Mrs. Gandhi or her fallen comrades. He announced that she was free to live in her government residence "as long as she wished...
...Educational Resources Group (ERG), a 30-member student group that chooses the student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), released a report Thursday that outlines an alternative to the plan for a core curriculum set forth by the Task Xorce on the Core Curriculum...
Four undergraduates, including three members of a freshman seminar, will fly to Colombia next Thursday for a ten-day field trip to get acquainted with the tropics and study birds...
...Thursday, the Crimson swam Malcolm Cooper in the 50 yard free-style, Kevin O'Connell, the only Harvard swimmer who made this tournament last year in the 200-yard individual medley and the seventh-ranked medley-relay team of Tom Wolf, Ted Fullerton, George Keim and Cooper...